New close-up telescope photos show ‘honeycomb’ texture on sun

By Misty Severi

Published May 23, 2023 8:56pm ET

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New close-up telescope photos show ‘honeycomb’ texture on sun — New close-up images of the sun from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope show plasma that looked like close-up shots of honeycombs. The eight images, captured by the telescope’s Visible-Broadband Imager, detailed some sunspots on the sun, which are dark and cool regions on the sun’s “surface” known as the photosphere. Sunspots […]

New close-up images of the sun from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope show plasma that looked like close-up shots of honeycombs.

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